Is this velvet?

KMench · Dec 22, 2018

@rkpetersen Im not convinced it will work either, but it’s unilateral so I’m hopeful it will resolve on its own based on what you’ve said. The fish are now out of copper and got a 100% water chance so I’m hopeful that will improve their odds of resolving on their own. I’ll try the mag sulfate tomorrow, and I ordered neoplex from amazon which will be here Monday. If it’s not cured by Monday I’ll dose neo.

Humblefish · Dec 22, 2018

KMench said:
Pharma grade BRS Mag sulfate

^^ This can be used in lieu of Epsom salt. It is not fully understood how magnesium sulfate works to relieve swelling in SW fish, but anecdotal evidence is strong. In any case, it doesn't hurt anything.

KMench · Dec 23, 2018

@Humblefish I’m glad to see you’re back! You’ve helped me more than once. I’ll dose the epsom in the morning and ordered the neoplex on prime on a back up.

KMench · Dec 24, 2018

Dosed the mag sulfate yesterday. Pop eye appears to be mostly resolved today. Fish are all out of copper and got a 100% water change. Hopefully the mag plus clean water plus copper removal does the trick! At 4 weeks fallow now so two weeks of observation are on deck and then good to go

KMench · Dec 29, 2018

Well, sad news. My golden rhomboid wrasse was found deceased today. Not quite sure what happened there.... Hadn't seen him for a few days even though he is normally active and swimming so I did a little moving around in one of the QT tanks and found his body. Thought I was safe from losses since there through copper already

;Rage

Humblefish · Dec 29, 2018

KMench said:
Well, sad news. My golden rhomboid wrasse was found deceased today. Not quite sure what happened there.... Hadn't seen him for a few days even though he is normally active and swimming so I did a little moving around in one of the QT tanks and found his body. Thought I was safe from losses since there through copper already ;Rage

KMench · Dec 29, 2018

Yeah. Not quite sure what happened there. I didn’t see any problems in that QT tank and he was active up until I lost track of him.

Big G · Dec 29, 2018

KMench said:
Yeah. Not quite sure what happened there. I didn’t see any problems in that QT tank and he was active up until I lost track of him.

Sorry for your loss

KMench · Dec 31, 2018

Does anyone know confidence intervals for velvet dying off in your tank after fallow periods? I’ve been able to find a chart with standard deviations and confidence intervals for ich, but nothing for velvet.

KMench · Jan 3, 2019

@HotRocks So, I may have just made an error and added water that a new fish came in, into a QT with fish that had already been treated. On a scale of 0-10 what do you think the chances of passing a pathogen along were when I accidentally added probably 6 oz of water into a QT tank.

:mad:;Blackeye;Dead

HotRocks · Jan 3, 2019

KMench said:
@HotRocks So, I may have just made an error and added water that a new fish came in, into a QT with fish that had already been treated. On a scale of 0-10 what do you think the chances of passing a pathogen along were when I accidentally added probably 6 oz of water into a QT tank. :mad:;Blackeye;Dead

Ugggghhhh. There are some variables. Was it a fish that was purchased locally? Or shipped? Depending on where the fish came from (most LFS just bag the fish with tank water where you could definitely have free swimmers or any other pathogen). A shipped fish is frequently packaged with new water which would be less likely to carry a free swimmer depending on how long it was in the bag itself. Either way I wouldn't trust it. I would re-QT the fish if it were me.

KMench · Jan 3, 2019

Tell me about it! It was a replacement golden rhomboid from Saltwaterfish.com, so should be shipped in new saltwater. I was thinking of observing them for two weeks and letting it go at that. The tank I dumped it into has a tang, so it there was ich or velvet in the water it’ll manifest itself. Sound like a plan? Or should I just do two weeks in copper again and then transfer?

KMench · Jan 3, 2019

Never mind. I remembered I have CP. that’ll be the treatment tomorrow once the prazi is done. So much easier than copper

KMench · Jan 4, 2019

@HotRocks how’s the comparability between prazi and cp? I dosed prazi two days ago and just want to make sure I’m good to put them in CP tomorrow.

HotRocks · Jan 4, 2019

I would run carbon for 24hours and preform a 25-50% WC.

I have never combined the two personally.

Shanet · Jan 4, 2019

FWIW I have used CP and PraziPro numerous times together with no side affects.

ngoodermuth · Jan 5, 2019

Do you still have wrasses in there? Unless it’s been tested more recently, I think wrasses are iffy with CP.... although I’ve been gone a while so that may have changed.

KMench · Jan 5, 2019

@ngoodermuth No wrasses in there. I only dumped water in one of my 4 current QT tanks. The one I dumped it into has two clowns, a butterfly, and zebrasoma tang so thankfully I think I’m ok on that front. Still a little frustrated with myself that I did it, but at least the fish from all my other QT tanks can go back in two days when my six weeks of fallow is up!

Humblefish · Jan 5, 2019

ngoodermuth said:
Do you still have wrasses in there? Unless it’s been tested more recently, I think wrasses are iffy with CP.... although I’ve been gone a while so that may have changed.

Cirrhilabrus & Halichoeres genus wrasses seem to be fine in CP.

Paracheilinus & Pseudocheilinus ARE A NO GO in CP.

Jury is still out on all other genera of wrasses.

Welcome back!